Wednesday, December 31, 2014

31 December 2014

“But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.” [Ezekiel 33:6]

“For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” [Ephesians 6:12]

The Southern Presbyterian Church’s Potomac Presbytery in 1918 organized the Jehoash Presbyterian Church in Catlett Station (now Catlett), Virginia near the busy Southern Railway tracks. Jehoash’s minister George W. Crabtree was known as “the Prison Evangelist of the Southern Presbyterian Church,” and centered his ministry on the then-current and former members of the nearby prison road gangs building some of the first highways in Virginia. A very interesting and much more detailed history of Mr. Crabtree and Jehoash is available in the March 2012 issue of Brentsville Neighbors on the Historic Prince William website located here:

On Sunday 28 December 2014 following the 11 a.m. service, Jehoash’s minister the Rev. Warren Copeland retired and assumed emeritus status after a fifty-year ministry:

l. to r. Deacon Morgan Ott , the Rev. Rev. Jim Spuregon,

and the Rev. Warren and Virginia Copeland

Beginning 4 January 2014, Mr. John Clair, assisted by retired Presbyterian Church in America minister the Rev Jim Spurgeon, will begin serving Jehoash in the ministry of the Word, and in teaching and evangelistic outreach. In September 2014, John was taken under care as a ministry student by the Reformed Presbyterian Church – Hanover Presbytery. John has recently completed undergraduate studies at Liberty University, and will begin studies at Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary in the fall of 2015. Additionally, Mr. Clair is the Chief of Police for the Town of Quantico, Virginia.